I don’t know what my dad’s death certificate says, just that when the doctors removed him from the breathing machine he died. I blame Obamacare. /s

(And I haaaate when people ask me what “he really died of”. Like, seriously. Do they hear themselves?)

Also that the COVID death numbers were inflated because COVID doesn’t kill people, pneumonia and not breathing kills people.

Odd. I just tried

curl https://www.scrapingcourse.com/cloudflare-challenge

and got

Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue

I’m clearly not on the same setup as you are, but my off-the-cuff guess is that your curl command was issued from a system that cloudflare already recognized (IP whitelist, cookies, I dunno).

Anyways, I’m reading through this blog post on using cURL with cloudflare-protected sites and I’m finding it interesting.

Last I checked, cloudflare requires the user to have JavaScript and cookies enabled. My institution doesn’t want to require those because it would likely impact legitimate users as well as bots.

It’s also a huge problem for library/archive/museum websites. We try so hard to make data available to everyone, then some rude bots come along and bring the site down. Adding more resources just uses more resources–the bots expand to fill the container.

TBF, Hitlerdid kill Hitler.

I care! I was one of the 3 trans people in the fencing club and I really dislike being told there are so few “trans college athletes” that I was about 10% of the total (assuming the prevalence of trans college athletes has remained constant from 15 years ago to today).

I don’t find it useful to quote statistics without recognizing their sources and limitations. It leads to inaccurate perceptions of reality.

From https://www.kget.com/sports/ncaa-president-says-there-are-less-than-10-transgender-athletes-in-college-sports/ ? That’s the number the head of the NCAA is aware of, and almost certainly doesn’t cover college athletes playing on non-NCAA teams and sports.

It was a club sport and counted as a PE class for college credit. I get that the NCAA doesn’t cover clubs, but the image and parent comment didn’t specify NCAA sanctioned sports.

I’d be shocked if there’s only 10 trans college athletes. My college fencing club had three I could name, 15 years ago. My current college has at least one.

Now, out trans women who competed in NCAA sports, certainly a smaller set of people.

Also, totes agree it’s ridiculous to care about (I don’t know how to call it) the “integrity” of college women’s sports more than something that is actually harming and killing kids.

Last time I went to a new-to-me grocery store that I didn’t have a loyalty card for, I just used [local area code]-867-5309. Jenny hasn’t failed me yet.

That’s sounds wickedly retro-brilliant and I love it. Would it use full-size VHS tapes, or those dinky ones that fit into a full-size converter?

I ended up ordering a VF-VS1 VIOFO VS1 mini. It seemed low-hassle, and I’m happy with audio + front video.

I’ll probably go the long-cable route. It’s a 2008 car, so I’m not winning any style points anyway. I’ll ask my mechanic if they could hardwire it next time I’m in.

Thanks!

I hadn’t thought of mounting behind the mirror and running wiring along the edge of the window. That makes sense, thank you. I’ll take a look at your suggestion. 😊

I’m mostly worried about wiring and having a distraction in my field of view, so mounting behind the rear-view mirror might work. I already have a parking tag there, but there might be space for both. Thanks!

I thought about a mobile app, but something that consistently records is better than relying on my faulty memory.

I’ll take a look at 70mai, thanks.

Aww, that’s sweet! It’s nice to feel those feelings.

I kind of wish I knew what the happy pills were–they seemed super effective on everyone that took them (I think at one point my grandma, mom, and her two nieces were on them), and they were effective after one dose.

Myself, the hardest med I’ve had was codeine after wisdom teeth removal. Joke’s on me, codeine makes me vomit, which really sucks after wisdom teeth removal. Opiates are not my friend.

I remember my mom trying to tell her niece the trick to dealing with mom’s sister. Niece was very resistant–“no, no, I know how to handle my mom”. Finally my mom explained that the trick is to take Grandma’s new happy pills.

That was a weird summer spent at the hospital, with Grandpa in the ICU and mom’s sister driving everyone batty (including Grandma, hence the new happy pills).

Oh, and Mom got really talkative driving me home on happy pills and that’s how I learned my dad was her second husband. I was a college sophomore, iirc.

It wasn’t that uncommon at the time. Take a look at this 2005 study the US GAO did on the issue: Social Security Numbers: Federal and State Laws Restrict Use of SSNs, yet Gaps Remain Also, this news article on the trend.