tostonescon

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by tostonescon 4y ago
Well the article is paywalled, but: 1. I don't think anyone is under the delusion that electric vehicles consume no fossil fuel generated electricity. "Zero emissions" has never meant "free energy" 2. That electrici
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by tostonescon 4y ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01718-8 >In 2020, over 60% of launches to low Earth orbit resulted in a rocket body being abandoned in orbit >In the USA, the Orbital Debris Mitigation Standard Practice
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by tostonescon 4y ago
Genuinely curious - why is China doing uncontrolled reentry any different? As far as I understand it the vast majority of rockets have uncontrolled re-entry, save for spaceplanes, falcon 9, and more recently electron.
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by tostonescon 4y ago
/r/conservative does the exact same thing, why the handwringing about that sub in particular? What sub-text could possibly have caused you to select that sub as your example? Reddit is a platform for communities. Some communities,
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by tostonescon 4y ago
The ba.4/ba.5 is not the first bivalent mRNA vaccine. The ba.1 bivalent vaccine was the first, which has been studied in a larger population than the ba.4/5 bivalent vaccine. The FDA instructed Pfizer and moderna to reformulate ba
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by tostonescon 4y ago
I'm not saying you have to get it. I'd like everyone to get the vaccine, because it is showing greatly improved outcomes over pre vaccine COVID. You are anti this vaccine, and your posture is largely fear based rather than scienti
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by tostonescon 4y ago
This is because the ba.4/ba.5 vaccine is so incredibly close to the ba.1 bivalent vaccine, which did see more human trials and showed a similar safety profile as the original vaccine. Kinda like how we get a new flu vaccine every year
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by tostonescon 4y ago
This is a very odd interpretation of the data that you yourself linked, unless I misread your intention or the data you linked 2018 flu season spent about a month at 5000 excess on this chart. We've spent the last two and half years wi
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by tostonescon 4y ago
I am surprised with how conspiratorial hacker news has been regarding COVID treatments and vaccines. I thought this crowd was a bit more rigorous in their scientific takes. For this study in particular, people are raising methodological con
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by tostonescon 4y ago
It sure seems like a lot of people in the medical community are taking it pretty seriously. Given the quantity of medical journal articles discussing long covid, I'm going to go with YES
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by tostonescon 5y ago
As a white man I've really faced a lot of hurdles and roadblocks to my success /s lmao Just don't be an asshole, it's not that hard
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by tostonescon 5y ago
The goal is to cure cancer. In the meantime, those efforts shouldn't be limited to people who (largely) fit the existing power structures and historical privilege. "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like opp
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by tostonescon 5y ago
This is a bad op ed and it's unmasked by this quote in particular “Some of my friends and professors in science were saying, ‘Oh the people in sociology are trying to study us and judge us and tell us how to do better and be better peo
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by tostonescon 5y ago
I had a seller hassle me on my personal email after me telling them to stop asking for removal of an honest review in exchange for a replacement of a poorly made product. Literally could not find a way to tell Amazon, so I left a review on