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by 34679 3y ago
Flame diverters are heavy, and none exist on Mars. It's safer to gather as much of that data as possible before going to Mars.
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by 34679 3y ago
Every fast food drive thru now asks if you want to "round up" your total for some charity of their choice. Not because they want to make the world a better place, but because all that "rounding up" becomes their charitab
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by 34679 3y ago
>it's not obvious how one would replace it to do the same thing for EVs. Taxing tires would work. Also, mileage is already recorded during vehicle inspections. That could be used to calculate tax but would be more open to fraud.
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by 34679 3y ago
Boys that "act like boys", (throwing rocks, etc) are given Adderall. Parents that refuse end up talking to child services.
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by 34679 3y ago
The only thing that comes to mind is to stop straw purchases. If you have a friend buy a thing for you, then you're effectively getting a discounted price on that thing.
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by 34679 3y ago
It blows my mind that people still browse the web without an ad blocker. Install Firefox + uBlock and the problem goes away.
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Ocean drillers exhume a bounty of rocks from Earth’s mantle(science.org)
2 points by 34679 3y ago|0 comments
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Pump water to a higher location.
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by 34679 3y ago
$0.07/comment is literally pennies. Certainly not enough to discourage this activity in the future.
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by 34679 3y ago
If you count the US government's backdoors, then every mobile phone comes pre-infected with malware.
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by 34679 3y ago
There's a great Radiolab episode on this topic and the person who first isolated it. https://radiolab.org/podcast/dirty-drug-and-ice-cream-tub
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The Radio We Could Send to Hell(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Mutual Benefit Corporation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual-benefit_nonprofit_cor...
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by 34679 3y ago
Spaceweather.com is also worth checking out, for people into this sort of thing.
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by 34679 4y ago
I missed out on 80's home computing, but my 90's TI-85 calculator was definitely my first step into programming. I'd like cell phones to be more like that. It had plenty of functions built in, but I could always add more, and
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5-Year-Old Pulled Down a 3-Year-Old's Pants. The Preschool Workers Are on Trial(reason.com)
38 points by 34679 4y ago|39 comments
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Lumatek is a major brand that can be found in most grow shops. If it's widely known that they're not in compliance and have been labelled with fake FCC stickers, why are they not being seized at the border? Why should any US manuf
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by 34679 4y ago
Modern food and energy rely upon countless items manufactured in China. John Deere would not be able to continue making the tractors they currently make without Chinese components. Same goes for everything from oil tankers to highway pavers
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by 34679 4y ago
>more than any other planet on earth Take a look at the space around you. How many of the items you see were made in the US?
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by 34679 4y ago
"widespread death and destruction across the entire planet" does not necessitate Russia using nukes. Russia is not a political island. They have allies. Conventional warfare between the US and Russia would likely draw in countries
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by 34679 4y ago
How many countries have we bombed and/or sent troops into during the last 20 years? What country do you think should stop us? Wouldn't it be better if the people demanded an end to war instead of being convinced we can bomb our wa
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by 34679 4y ago
Judging by the comments here, it would be easy to assume most of you are already in favor of war with Russia. Russia is not "the good guy". Neither are we. Any action that promotes war between the two is an action that also promot
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by 34679 4y ago
I've never used TikTok, and I very strongly disagree with banning it. They should ban whatever activities they have a problem with, but that won't happen because then US companies would be subject to the same rules, and the US gov
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by 34679 4y ago
I have Blender installed, but haven't taken the time to figure out how to use it. This is how BlenderGPT went for me: I started with a scene that had a camera and a cube. I told it to make the cube red. Result: "Error executing ge
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Is It Time for Morels Yet?(namyco.org)
1 points by 34679 4y ago|0 comments
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Private insurance is available. If you have significantly more than $250k in the bank, you can afford it. Our government has enough "solutions" as it is, and many (most?) of them are targeted toward the people who need them the le
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by 34679 4y ago
Also, primary school in the US is elementary school. I don't know any 5th graders busting out Fourier transforms.
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by 34679 4y ago
I'm curious if you've asked your family members whether they're ok with having photos of themselves being used to train Amazon's facial recognition model? I know it's a common practice and Amazon isn't alone, y
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by 34679 4y ago
>Expressed differently: reserves are like cash in a vault (or electronic equivalents). What you want instead is a big buffer of equity in the capital structure, so that shareholders can absorb huge losses long before creditors do. That s
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America's Censorship-Industrial Complex(public.substack.com)
5 points by 34679 4y ago|0 comments

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