Money market or high yield savings. They may not return much but will keep you at or above inflation. 3 years is too short for stock. Maybe it would work, but maybe it won’t and you can’t recover that quickly.

In general I think ten years where stock is an unbeatable investment where you’ll almost always come out ahead.

I don’t have a hair dryer but some bidets do have a dry setting that blows hot air

I can imagine it being comfortable once but then I’m imagining dry chapped skin where you least want it

This may be relevant

• https://www.keytos.io/blog/passwordless/how-much-does-a-yubikey-cost.html

Are they, especially your mom, different in person?

I have this one aunt who will hold forth in any crowd, insisting on whatever conspiracy theory she read on Facebook most recently. It’s tiring to the point that most of my adult life I’ve avoided her at family get togethers. But last time I saw her, just before pandemic, we happened into conversation away from everyone else. She came across lucid, intelligent, and we had a good conversation. wtf? Where has all that been?

If they survive and don’t infect others.

That’s back to the problem where we essentially eradicated diseases like measles. Most people have no first or even second hand experience with the suffering, they have never heard of anyone dying. Some of us can look at statistics and case studies to get a better understanding of the consequences, but it’s too abstract for all too many. How can we make the suffering real, concrete, enough for those people without actually causing harm?

It’s also the problem where too many people can only think of themselves. With an infectious disease, what about all the other people you come into contact with? Especially those who are more vulnerable? My immune system fought off covid so I’m not too worried about myself next time but what about my parents? What about a stranger with a compromised immune system? What if I spread it to someone but they have parents or grandparents or a loved one with compromised immune system?

This was especially a problem with chicken pox, and I certainly fell prey to it as well. I grew up where chicken pox just ran through your family and then you were immune. Importantly I never heard of any lasting consequences nor the connection to Shingles. Why would you vaccinate? Just let your immune system handle it.

It was much later that I saw there is permanent harm and even death from chicken pox. Most importantly I learned about Shingles and how prevalent it is among the elderly.

• As a child I saw the consequences of chicken pox is a week out of school so why vaccinate
• As a parent with the resources of the internet I can find out the consequences can be much worse and better understand the importance of vaccinating even for something that had seemed minor

Worst case scenario, call support to put a credit card on file with your account. This is what I did when I ran into problems with the app (turns out I was too eager trying to use it before they were done setting me up).

When you use a supercharger, at least as a Tesla, there is a handshake where your car identifies what account to use, then it just works

You definitely lose a lot of convenience features if you don’t use the app, but I believe you can do it, if you want it enough

Edit: just use a web browser. I verified I can login through my web browser to manage my account, my products, my payment method. Not the car features though. I have no idea if this is new, but just use any web browser

I don’t know, I think the Covid vaccination disaster is mostly from media and politics trying to take advantage, to foment outrage and fake controversy for the clicks/votes. And too many people fall for it

But you also need to be careful how you talk about this because there is always some who seize on the real risk of issues without the perspective of the likelihood being minuscule compared tot he disease it prevents.

While there is some risk of the measles vaccination, it pales before the much bigger risk, the much higher harm of a measles epidemic. And we need a high percentage of people vaccinated to prevent that epidemic to protect all of us, including vulnerable segments of the population who can’t be immunized

Yes, they tend to happen about the same age, so can appear correlated when they’re not

It’s all too real even today, however that might not be the cause of current measles outbreaks.

Measles was eradicated from the US years ago, thanks to high vaccination rates. However that means most people have never seen measles so there is a fringe belief that it’s not harmful or the vaccination is more harmful, and vaccination rates have been declining to the point we could get a larger epidemic.

We do have localized measles outbreaks many years but they’ve usually been attributed to a new infection from overseas and a very local community insufficiently vaccinated. Sometimes the population is from places where they’re not vaccinated, sometimes it’s a vulnerable population. While yes, it can also be from fringe anti-vax groups, I really think the bigger fear is whether those fringe groups open a path to much wider outbreaks or epidemics.

Bad example. Tesla chargers don’t use an app, they assume you have an account set up with a credit card on file. Most people do that through the app but I don’t think you have to. Once it’s set up, it just works with no further interaction.

Or are you doing this as a non-Tesla customer? Yeah that’s not as smooth yet

Sorry, I don’t have any details. I enabled it long ago and really don’t think about it except when it breaks a web site. Then it’s well integrated to temporarily turn it off

Agreed. Yes I want to hear what other people say. The only reason it’s even valid to say “why does country x ….” is to included whether and how it’s different than “country not equal x”.

Most of the time we may find out we’re all people, regardless of political divisions

And then “just say no” to apps for websites

For iPhone, The internet is much better:

• in reader mode
• with AdGuard

Supposedly that’s a significant impediment to malware - requiring an active credit card and non-trivial fee.

Any commercial product of any size is not going to miss $100. So it comes down to: is it good to reduce malware or is it bad to block freeware?

Usually people speak of this as an advantage but I also think it is a disadvantage, one of the reasons for wider usage of iPhones ……

• there are crappy android phones
• historically android was crappy (even if it is much better now)
• most android phones are loaded with bloatware.
• most android phones are poorly supported or for only a short period
• privacy and security can be a challenge for regular users
• inconsistent usability

Meanwhile, iPhones

• are always “good”, even the lower end
• historically held leads in usability, features, even if not true anymore
• no bloatware from vendors
• full support for 6 years
• claim privacy and security by default
• good usability

Same here, although accidentally. I’m a fairly big guy and the chiropracter wasn’t strong enough to do many of the things he attempted so that was useless. However he used this electrical thing to stimulate the muscles in my lower back that seemed to really help.

The biggest problem with chiropractors (in the us) is the industry makes too many claims about what it can help with and there aren’t really regulations about what they can medically claim or where the limits are. You’ll find chiropractors who say they can cure anything and there will always be some who believe it. There’s too little science, too few qualifications, way too many exaggerated claims

Different bubbles are a visual indicator whether the messages are encrypted.

Apple is a good faith participant in that they support a fallback to the texting standard supported by every mobile vendor.

It’s not bad faith on my part when you brought up WhatsApp. Sure they don’t have blue but bubbles, but that’s because they don’t support an open standard at all, they don’t have an inclusive mode at all, they only support their own users on their own proprietary protocol.

Most importantly I don’t see how it’s Apple’s responsibility to push mobile vendors to modernize. Blame them if vendors were modernizing and they pushed back, however, no, there was no progress. It’s irrelevant if the standard is evolving but no one supports it and this whole thing on,y works if mobile vendors support it

Well, my old company sure made a ridiculous profit selling them. You may be looking at the cost per fob hardware, but not including the management cost. They are much more expensive than an authentication app, plus authentication apps are mostly managed by someone else, and you don’t have distribution overhead