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In music, # denotes a sharp key or note and b denotes a flat key or note — this is Italian notation.

Traditionally in English, the # symbol was called the hash, because it looked like the end of a cooking implement used to hash vegetables (nowadays everyone would say mash instead).

In US typewriters, there was no £ symbol, so # was used to denote british pounds instead.

When the telephone button pad was created, there was room for two more symbols and tones, so the creators took the asterisk and hash from the typewriter and added them as extra signals.

When Twitter needed a way to denote a tagged word in a tweet, they decided to use the hash symbol.

Do they have other types of savings?

“That’s it! I’m not shopping at SuperStore anymore because they artificially inflate their prices! I’ll shop at Safeway… oh wait, they’re doing it too. I’ll shop at… IGA? For twice the price? Hmm… Walmart, for the same price but half the nutritional content?”

Yeah; until there’s actual penalties that could make the business unviable if they continue to violate the rules, things are unlikely to change.

Also, they’re pretty useless when they filter out beneficial minerals but miss the thing you didn’t know about that’ll kill you.

That well water got tested on a regular basis. It didn’t include PFAS because nobody tested for PFAS back then.

However, most filters today don’t filter PFAS. A good reverse osmosis filter will, or distillation. Problem with distillation is that it filters out all the good stuff too, so then you have to fortify your water.

Yup

That’s what makes it interesting 🤔

Or… the agent hallucinates that it has a valid license.

Really? There’s something appealing to me about decoupling my cellular modem from my phone; I used an iPod Touch instead of a smartphone for years (with Wifi and VoIP).

At this point I have zero interest in a dedicated audio player.

And if I wanted one… my watch holds more MP3s than the original iPod did. I can just play music from my watch.

Or my graphing calculator.

Or, for that matter, my over the ear headphones which have a microSD slot.

Fluoridosis occurs when fluoride is present in our bodies at a level orders of magnitude higher than what we get naturally or artificially from most water sources.

And you know what happens long before it’s at harmful levels in the body?

Your teeth start to stain from it. And any doctor or dentist who sees fluoride stains on your teeth will immediately jump into action and help you eliminate whatever source is causing the problem. It won’t be your water supply, because that’s more likely to kill you from the other additives than from the fluoride if you drink too much.

Er, there’s at least 5 consumer router manufacturers that meet the new requirements. Interestingly, one of them is TP-Link.

I’ve survived over half a century without a water filter? For half of that, I was on a well.

Water filters are good when they filter out something you know is in the water that shouldn’t be.