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by jvm___ 4y ago
NY state has a long running study where on July 15th every year they would put up a super bright lighthouse bulb in the middle of the woods and put it over a tarp. After they night they'd weigh the physical mass of insect life that had
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Another article I read said they did multiple samples from people and the attractive people were always attractive. They said it rules out soaps and recently eaten food, but I guess "extreme" diets of vegan or carnivore wouldn&#x2
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The "dart space mission" that crashed into an asteroid recently...
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by jvm___ 4y ago
Learning how to assemble lego takes minutes. Designing and building a 500 piece Lego set would take you years. You could create one quickly, but then refine it over the years - or it could be beyond you and you need to build up to it.
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by jvm___ 4y ago
Does nature use radio waves? Can anything sense or transmit them in a meaningful way?
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Ya, there aren't any local to me without driving 20 minutes and finding parking, and I'm too cheap to join one anyways. Running group has helped, just hanging out with adults and overhearing conversations is nice - they're mo
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"The water in your body is just visiting. It was a thunderstorm a week ago. It will be the ocean soon enough. Most of your cells come and go like morning dew. We are more weather pattern than stone monument. Sunlight on mist. Summer li
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by jvm___ 4y ago
"The quiet guy who just likes listening to intelligent conversations and chiming in when they can" also misses the social interactions that happen by default in an office. Overhearing conversations about other tech stacks/pro
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by jvm___ 4y ago
Social media, if it were a physical store, would be endless aisles of dopamine inducing pictures and information.
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by jvm___ 4y ago
The human system really has only three inputs your conscious brain has control over (and they're almost all 'loose' controls). Loose controls meaning imagine feeding birds, you don't feed the individual birds you just pr
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by jvm___ 4y ago
The pessimistic view is that Tiktok is a customized propaganda machine. Pre-internet everyone consumed the same media, TV, newspapers, radio, magazines. You had to read older books or listen to smaller, probably local artists to get a diff
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by jvm___ 4y ago
At the scale of countries, the world is anarchy. - Some random Reddit comment that stuck with me
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by jvm___ 4y ago
I was on the subway in Toronto in 2017, two college age girls had an inch thick stack of 4x6's that they were going through. It was a strange throwback to the pre-digital era.
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Our sense of smell is still unknownish as to how we detect so many different smells without clogging up the smell receptors.
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...let there be light.
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by jvm___ 4y ago
So. Lithium battery powered humans would emit less carbon than regular humans?
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A man climbs into a taxi, "Airport please, I'm late!". The driver speeds up and starts going straight through a red light. The passenger is terrified, “That light was red! I'm not that late, aren’t you afraid we’ll be hi
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by jvm___ 4y ago
My current theory is that everything is a network. Prove me wrong, find something that's not a node on a complication network.
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by jvm___ 4y ago
Fear of 13. Captivating storytelling by the subject of the story. It's the life story of a man who spent 21 years on death row for a murder he had nothing to do with. He eventually cancelled all his appeals and requested his sentence b
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by jvm___ 4y ago
Which baffles the rest of the world as we see the aggregate number and are dumbfounded that nothing is done.
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by jvm___ 4y ago
Would unlimited, free, do whatever you want etc. nuclear power kill more people than our current trajectory? Not trying to start a fight, just curious. I guess there's enough people crazy enough to shoot/stab/invade that radi
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by jvm___ 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
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by jvm___ 4y ago
Friends for a reason. Friends for a season. Friends for a lifetime.
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Can AI improve on evolution? Tree DNA and cells must be super complicated, but they're evolved things so they must be inefficient. Can we figure out how to do the same things they do, just faster? Bamboo can grow inches per day, can we
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by jvm___ 4y ago
UAE had the most vaccinated people. Except they only counted citizens, foreign workers didn't count. I suspect Qutar did something similar.
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by jvm___ 4y ago
You're already being tracked by the grocery stores, wouldn't it be better to be tracked by someone who at least tries to have your best interests at heart vs. the grocery industry who just wants to sell you more?
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by jvm___ 5y ago
Food equals mood. I tell my cranky kids this all the time. Or, hopefully, before they get cranky, my kids don't like eating at appropriate times, it's like they're missing the hunger gene or something.
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by jvm___ 5y ago
RSTLNE are the letters people use for the final game in wheel of fortune. I'd assume a word made of those letters would be pretty good. I use one that involves your eyes, but there are probably others.
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by jvm___ 5y ago
Me doing some task: I'm not an idiot. My 6-year-old: How would you know?
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by jvm___ 5y ago
Give up unnecessary conflict, or, give up conflict where the goal is to make the other person suffer or bleed.

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