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721.
by ck2 10mo ago
remember when people first started experiencing TSA and there were massive protests at how obscene and violating it all was, then uncovering how useless they were as fake security theater and they were going to get it all shut down TWENTY-F
722.
by ck2 10mo ago
Was turned onto the the FW900 from hardforum years before LCD was available/reasonable Now I have a FW900 sitting in a closet for decades because I can't lift it anymore Also will never forget I was taking a walk in the woods year
723.
by ck2 10mo ago
my tmobile 5g modem has ipv4 but changes ip every single page load, it's wild I'm used to cablemodems with static ipv4 for months basically until mac changes
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by ck2 10mo ago
most people who get put in jail/prison for drugs do not get a "taste" of how horrible it is and get years right off the bat for first offense that's why I proposed five steps starting with warning, weekend, then week in
725.
by ck2 10mo ago
I live in a "working poor" neighborhood 50% of the people on this street get stoned before driving to work, every single day dope isn't even legal here and even if it was DUI is wildly illegal We can only cure this if we get
726.
by ck2 10mo ago
it's older content stitched together but PBS Space Time is some of my absolute favorite content on the web ever great distraction when the daily news is all bad and getting worse and learn a ton
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Black Holes. Explained. For 1.5 HOURS [video](youtube.com)
3 points by ck2 10mo ago|2 comments
728.
by ck2 10mo ago
I don't get it 99% of the population is voluntarily carrying sophisticated tracking devices with self-reporting always on even if the signal is off it catches up later with SEVERAL layers of tracking not just your phone carrier but Goo
729.
by ck2 10mo ago
I mean Musk almost singlehandedly has killed hundreds of thousands of kids worldwide in 2025 alone by destroying USAID medicine and basic nutrition distribution, while it literally rots in warehouses now If we are going to have cancer stori
730.
by ck2 10mo ago
btw I've wondered if Cloudflare Warp is considered to be a real VPN by VPN-blockers since it's not true privacy and just an "acceleration" tunnel aren't Cloudflare exit nodes also content edge servers so impossible
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by ck2 10mo ago
propublica.org has endless great articles on this and other horrors in the US but if we aren't going to change a damn thing with daily mass shooting we sure aren't going to fix poisoning the environment, fracking is 100x worse tha
732.
by ck2 10mo ago
If you live in US, get a tracfone with an annual 1500 minute plan for around $20-$30 You can just get a fliphone clamshell, they still do those and don't need a full smartphone (ironically the clamshell still runs android) They boot fa
733.
by ck2 11mo ago
vaguely related but exponentially more impressive camera the size of a grain of rice with 320x320 resolution https://ams-osram.com/products/sensor-solutions/cmos-image-s...
734.
by ck2 11mo ago
isolation transformers are way cheaper than double conversion and should work as well? well they used to be cheaper, not sure what is going with prices these day, I remember this being around $100 a decade ago https://www.officed
735.
by ck2 11mo ago
the "local AQI" is usually from a single government sensor for 100 mile radius which is useless as pollution is highly localized (think neighbor idiots burning leaves all day) also doesn't tell you indoor air quality which wh
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by ck2 11mo ago
I am hoping by the end of the decade smartphones start having pm2.5 and co2 sensors built-in and then next decade smartwatches Once EVERYONE starts seeing air-quality on their phones every hour of the day everywhere they are, they will star
737.
by ck2 11mo ago
moon ping time 2.6 seconds voyager ping time 172,800 seconds 1000+ years from now a ship will take off from earth or orbit and pass Voyager in a few hours (assuming the planet is not turned into one huge radioactive, forever-checmical ocean
738.
by ck2 11mo ago
for anyone looking for a deal, thank me later, buy asap ebay .com /itm/ 256168320806 (no association, just trying to help, I am still using DDR4)
739.
by ck2 11mo ago
I wish someone would take on an open-source project for a sports watch with full features like vo2max estimation, etc. like a cyanogenmod or lineageos but for an older watch model someone has completely decompiled the firmware for the Garmi
740.
by ck2 11mo ago
is there any way to get past challenges.cloudflare.com with tokens or something? so stupid there is no fallback and can take down 50% of the internet adding:looks like even Cloudflare's Silk Privacy Pass with challenge tokens is broken
741.
by ck2 11mo ago
google Peter Thiel and Rockbridge and be afraid, it makes Project2025 pale in comparison (starting point for the lazy https://authoritarian-stack.info )
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by ck2 11mo ago
ha I vaguely remember that from the catalogs But what I REALLY remember is learning that H class motors existed and became obsessed with finding one but the internet wasn't a thing yet so it was impossible (several times more powerful
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by ck2 11mo ago
yes he basically created the "vitamin C cult" of the time which is like the "vitamin D cult" of today HOWEVER Linus Pauling was also a legit brilliant chemist that won two nobel prizes and authored over 1000 papers He cr
744.
by ck2 11mo ago
whenever I need a crash-course on a vitamin or mineral I check the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University for quality info written by and reviewed by Phds https://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/minerals/mangan
745.
by ck2 1y ago
just want to point out it's not just for obesity GLP-1 has been demonstrated to even cure some types of long-covid in some people in some cases and various other diseases but it's priced way out of reach even for micro-doses until
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by ck2 1y ago
if you saw the 60 Minutes on compounding pharmacies, which are completely unregulated and never inspected, and sometimes contaminate products out of lack of care/repercussions you'd never touch a compounded pharmacy product ever a
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by ck2 1y ago
no GLP-1 generics until 2030 lots of people will miss out on benefits, like oh preventing death our drug system is weird
748.
by ck2 1y ago
Well no, apparently ANY President now has almost ANY power so the next President could order a new penny made with their face on it sure they could, look at the east-wing and tell me what limits of power a President has
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by ck2 1y ago
NOAA Space Weather Aurora Forecast https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-exper...
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US saw vivid northern lights as far south as Florida and more could be coming(npr.org)
14 points by ck2 1y ago|2 comments

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