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I called a bank to increase my ATM limit. The agent sent me an SMS code to verify my identity and wanted me to read it back to him. The message said not to give the code to any human. Sigh.

I've been self-employed for years now (USA), and never buy dental insurance, because it's not really insurance, it's basically a non-taxable way for companies to give their employees extra money. Buying it as self-employed persons is basically just giving the "insurance" companies your own money.

There just wasn't evidence-based studies for a lot of common dental practices. Not unlike when the FDA was created, a lot of old medicines were just given a pass, even though they aren't useful (like how Acetaminophen is barely better than placebo — it'd never be approved today).

Just because there's no actual studies for flossing, that doesn't mean that flossing is bad or not-needed per se, but there does need to be more basic-level studies for it. I had bad gum-disease in my 20s, but once I actually started flossing daily, it stopped progressing. So it clearly helped me, but a better study on whether everyone needs to floss and how often should be done.

Certainly most particulate matter, and it's not even close. Comparing particulates to gas emissions is difficult, so there's no way to say what's "most".

Either way, my greater point still stands: switching to EVs isn't a cure-all to breathing around cars.

Tires are only about 25% natural rubber; the rest is synthetic rubber, heavy metals, plastics, and additives. These get emitted as fine particulates that stick around in the air. They may not technically be a gas, but we breathe it in just the same.

I've been an avid 1Password user for over 10 years, but since they gone full-throttle targeting the enterprise market, I'm getting more and more annoyed. It's increasingly buggy (right now, it thinks I haven't migrated from 1p7 which causes annoying interstitials that I can't close. Over a month and no fix yet.). They killed standalone vaults. Obvious feature requests (e.g archive an entire vault) sit there for years untouched. The value is increasingly not there anymore for me, and here's hoping I can finally jump ship this fall.

But each conflict point is crossing only one direction of traffic, and there are no cars turning left or right into the crosswalks (which is huge cause of pedestrian impacts). So even though there are 4 crosswalks, maybe the aggregate danger is less?

eBay just doesn’t care about fakes. I’ve reported many things over the years and they almost never get removed. I’ve pretty much given up.

Modern furniture (even those "fancy" new DTC brands you hear on podcasts) has taking a nosedive since it's been offshored: https://wapo.st/4bnkYl6

These days, if you want quality, you pretty much have to make sure it's made in America or Europe.

A lot of modern flatpack furniture isn't even particle board or plywood, it's structural cardboard. eg. https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/ka4jl6/t...

Modern solid-wood furniture makes use of lighter materials too. Sometimes the backboard will be thin particle board, or certain planks will be pretty thin. Or the drawers are made of much lighter wood, possibly veneered. Also, the designs are much less ornate.

So in general, your modern solid wood furniture AND cheap, flatpack stuff will be lighter that old well-built furniture.

Don't discount the utility of reading, though maybe it's less useful these days with smartphone camera translation.

Back before widespread internet, I spent two weeks in Korea, and by the end I could basically read & pronounce it (without really understanding anything) because it was that critical to getting around.

English also doesn't have a (proper) future tense, but you would still need to learn how to talk about the future using the modal 'will'.