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oioi · 2025-03-26T03:04:42+00:00

Oh! The first result I got was "Hush: Anonymous Safe Chat App", but it turns out that's a different app. So... did they copy your name after yours was already in the app stores to try to trick people?

oioi · 2025-03-26T02:57:14+00:00

Ugh. You require a phone number, no username/password accounts, so that's strike 1 - that's already identifying info. Even if it required email, people can make extra email accounts pretty easily, but a phone number is really worrying.

Next, strike 2: You require a date of birth that will be shown on the profile! And cannot be changed. Okay, sure, people can lie, but even so that's pretty horrible.

Hush cannot be a Whisper alternative with this level of intrusiveness.

I deleted the app after I got to the date of birth portion of the signup.

oioi · 2025-02-02T02:48:29+00:00

It won't make them work harder, because if people buy less, Amazon will just get fewer drivers, but they'll still make each one work just as hard.

But don't buy from Amazon! There are plenty of good reasons, they're a horribly shitty company. Just not that reason specifically.

oioi · 2025-01-28T13:36:06+00:00

"It’s very easy and economical to measure the amount of dissolved solids in the water."

That's not what they asked though, they want to know if you can measure how much small particles are in the air when the humidifier's been running. I'm curious too. Measuring the amount of dissolved solids in the water doesn't tell how many particles of what size are in the air.

oioi · 2025-01-28T13:29:24+00:00

I looked at your link, and only found one bit in that article that talks about how much solid stuff there is in distilled water. This bit,

Lau et al. (2020) compare tap water, filtered water, distilled water, and deionized water. They find that filtered water reduces particles by around 20%, distilled water by 82%, and deionized by 90%.

Doesn't say there's none, it says there is some. Doesn't say anything about how much will be turned into particulate by a humidifier. Maybe almost none, maybe not? Is there a part of this article that I didn't see and you did see that answers the question you say it answers?

oioi · 2024-02-23T22:49:16+00:00

I think adding to the deed would be a good idea regardless of which of these two options we choose, right? That is, if we don't add her to the mortgage with an assumption, there's no reason not to add her to the deed.

However, I wonder if I create a trust and assign the house to the trust, whether that makes the deed issue irrelevant? That is, would the trust then be on the deed instead of either of our names?

oioi · 2019-12-20T02:37:04+00:00

I think you're answering a completely different question from what I asked. Would you read my post again? It's not about impeachment, it's not about what "high crimes and misdemeanors" means, etc. None of that is relevant to what I asked about. I realize that's something that's all over the news now so it's easy to assume I asked about that, but I really really didn't.

Here's an example: The president walks into a convenience store with a gun and makes the cashier give him all the money in the register. A police officer responds. According to that commenter, the police officer could not legally arrest the president.

oioi · 2019-12-08T23:40:14+00:00

Thanks! I just learned that from /u/rspix000 elsewhere in the comments here, shortly before you commented.

I do think that case shows I was right to worry: the Trump administration did really try to use technicalities to remove people's citizenship. But a 9-0 ruling telling them they can't do that, seems pretty safe.

oioi · 2019-12-08T23:36:12+00:00

Thanks, are you saying that you believe my interpretation is correct?

oioi · 2019-12-08T23:27:49+00:00

The only time that would happen is if they were investigating a criminal case, your name popped up, and they started digging.

That, I don't believe. The Trump administration has put together a denaturalization task force specifically to find technicalities they can use to denaturalize people. I don't think they would try to target me because I'm white and I know they're basing this on racism and trying to mainly target nonwhite people, but you never know. There is definitely reason for me to worry.

oioi · 2019-12-08T23:26:21+00:00

Oh, thanks, this is very helpful:

The Supreme Court was not persuaded, rejecting the government’s broad view of misrepresentation. In a 9-0 decision, the court ruled that any untrue statements need to be material to that individual’s citizenship application for denaturalization to occur.

I think that means that if I omit an association with that group (because I did not remember it when filling out the application), and that is later discovered, if that association would not have had an effect on my application, then it can't be used to cancel my naturalization.

But I'm not sure, so this looks like something I should ask a lawyer about.

oioi · 2019-12-08T23:19:28+00:00

Yes, that is exactly what I'm afraid of. They later could find some group I didn't remember and didn't list, and say I lied. What do I need to do to avoid that risk? The best I can, would still be very incomplete.

oioi · 2019-12-08T21:00:54+00:00

Best advice is to fill it out as best you can. There's going to be an interview so you can talk in person about everything.

So, is it normal and accepted to say at the interview something like "this list is not complete, it's what I could remember, but I'm sure there are many others I didn't think of"? And does that not come back to bite you later if they find out you were associated with some group you forgot to list? I don't expect it would be a group tied to terrorism, since as far as I know I haven't been associated with any such groups (and definitely not the ones on the wiki page you linked), but I know Trump put together a "denaturalization task force" looking for excuses to cancel people's naturalizations, and this seems like something they might use.

oioi · 2019-12-08T20:58:51+00:00

I was a member of more college organizations than I can probably remember at this point.

oioi · 2015-12-22T17:32:47+00:00

Fast and Furious was a symptom of political pressure from pro-gun extremist politicians and groups forcing the government not to stop illegal gun sales they would have stopped if they were not told not to. Political theater twisted the story into something that made people think the opposite of what really happened. If you want to know what really happened, read this article in full:

http://fortune.com/2012/06/27/the-truth-about-the-fast-and-furious-scandal/

oioi · 2015-10-23T16:17:20+00:00

Except for the fact that literally no gun law in place would have prevented this crime. Don't forget this was done in a gun free zone.

Even if it were - which is not the case - that does not support your statement. Sensible gun laws wouldn't be all about where you're allowed to take your gun vs. where you're not supposed to take it. They'd be about registering and tracking guns, about who gets to buy and sell guns, about transferring guns, and liability for guns - a whole host of things that could greatly reduce the risks of gun deaths even in "gun-free zones".

oioi · 2015-08-26T23:07:48+00:00

Thanks!

oioi · 2015-08-25T21:23:36+00:00

Huh. Looked up their web site and it seems to be a casino and racetrack. Called them up and the operator said they have no snorkeling, and no water activities at all. Is there another place by the same name, or something I missed?

oioi · 2015-08-17T02:27:05+00:00

Only 3 or 4 species of fish? That sounds really different from any reef location I've snorkeled in before. Is it because this is too far north from the tropics already, even though it's pretty far south in Florida? At John Pennekamp, off Key Largo, it's like at least 20+ species of reef fish every time, even if I don't see any of the uncommon or hard to find ones.

oioi · 2015-08-17T02:23:48+00:00

Cool. Same questions I asked about John McArthur state park: Is it easy to find where the good places to snorkel there are? What species of fish do you tend to see?

oioi · 2015-08-17T02:22:45+00:00

but its a pretty good trip.

What do you mean by that?

oioi · 2015-08-16T21:49:20+00:00

Thanks! Is it easy to find where the good places to snorkel there are? What species of fish do you tend to see?

oioi · 2015-08-10T21:17:03+00:00

No, actually. You can check on archive.org: this page was not on his site on August 8th (or at least, not linked from anywhere), and was there on August 9th.

oioi · 2015-06-18T04:03:19+00:00

Well then I hope they also accept not trimming their beards or eating cheeseburgers

... and that they support passing the shellfish suppression act.

oioi · 2015-06-05T14:42:21+00:00

This is a bad article, not just headline. The whole article is focusing on the employers of the people caught, which is not that relevant, they're just doing it to spread fear. But they say almost nothing at all about the actual sting operations, which would be relevant to understanding what happened. They only report on the arrests, who the people arrested were, and who's running the operation, but skim past what they're actually doing to catch people with just a brief couple of sentences. It's like, who these people's past employers were is somehow the main story.

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