That's terrible customer service and irresponsible of them. I find it wild that the bot would join without the user present.

Most of the ones built into the video conferencing solutions aren't as good.

Zoom is aight

It’s an 85 Toyota Tercel.

Sonic in the Bay Area is similar and provides amazing quality and customer service. They also support net neutrality. I hate the big telcos.

Yea, Sonic.net is amazing. I definitely recommend them if you are in their service area. Sadly they have been really slow to expand their fiber service, probably because they started in San Francisco, home of the NIMBY.

Ziply Fiber is another ISP that I can wholeheartedly recommend. They have service all over the north west states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho (though still not _everywhere_). Like Sonic.net, their quality of service is excellent. No congestion, very limited downtime, no bandwidth caps. They’ve even posted pictures of the accidents that have caused downtime. Most recently that was damaged battery banks that released enough hydrogen gas to shut down and evacuate a central office. Before that it was a drill that took out a fiber bundle; cue pictures of the engineers splicing all the individual fibers back together.

We need more local ISPs, municipal or otherwise.

Haven’t these types of drugs been in use for ~15 years?

> Haven’t these types of drugs been in use for ~15 years?

The predecessor of semaglutide, liraglutide has been sold since 1998. GLP-1 has been studied since the 70s. The first human was injected with GLP-1 agonists in 1993 IIRC.

Further, Ozempic itself is nearly 10 now and some people have been on Exenatide for 20+ years continuously now.

These drugs are not novel, or new and we absolutely know the long term health impact.

20 years isn't a lot of time

If the side effects are mild enough I don't notice for 20+ years, that's fine by me. I'll take it. Obesity had side effects that were killing me.

Same for me... I have a relatively obscure last name, but that's my Gmail address. I receive numerous random emails intended for other individuals with a similar name.

Indeed - There are not that many jeff sponaugle's, but I seem to get the email for the others from time to time!

Some high class Brits have been some of the most elitist and entitled people I’ve ever met.

I’d have to imagine the folks in this industry have done enough analysis to figure out what is most cost efficient.

I have no specialized knowledge in this, but I don’t think that cost efficiency is the primary reason for using trucks over trains. Because, if it was, rail with last mile by truck would probably win. Rail has a very low cost per mile by weight rate. But, it can be slow. Particularly when you consider that there are only a few routes across the country (across the Rockies), and trucks can go directly from point A to point B without needing to connect to a rail hub at both ends.

In someways it seems similar to why the hub and spoke model has fallen out of favor for airlines. It might be more efficient to have one large flight between hubs and two small flights to regional airports, but passengers would rather have a direct flight.

It's often used as trim that's painted over, as many don't consider the wood pretty. I love seeing poplar with a wide variety of colors.

Same here. The issue is mainly the likelihood of getting pregnant after about 36, from what the fertility folks shared with us. It drops off a cliff.