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- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
theguardian.com/…/power-grid-battery-capacity-gro…
US power grid added battery equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors in past four years
- Comment on the lifestyle 1 week ago:
It me, but excel is the bad option and plotly is the good option.
- Comment on Are there opposing institutions to things like the Heritage Foundation? Are there liberal policy think-tanks? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. For instance www.brennancenter.org recently did a tabletop exercise where they looked for all the worst things that could happen during a trump second term and looked for ways to stop them from happening. See (or rather hear) youtu.be/9SlnDvGHhBw
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 3 weeks ago:
Pumpkin curry is sooooo good.
- Comment on Peak performance 3 weeks ago:
Tell that to the people driving the dirt road outside my neighborhood.
- Comment on Has Dr. Strange ever given a diagnosis mid fight? 3 weeks ago:
For a second I read this as “Dr. Strangelove” and was really confused.
- Comment on What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up? 4 weeks ago:
It may be the Shaka, but in emoji it’s “call me” emojipedia.org/call-me-hand
- Comment on Proud globohomo 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, chapter 1 page 2 actually haha but the whole book is good.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 4 weeks ago:
This is so Carl Sagan.
And so we got to talking. But not, as it turned out, about science. He wanted to talk about frozen extraterrestrials languishing in an Air Force base near San Antonio, “channeling” (a way to hear what’s on the minds of dead people—not much, it turns out), crystals, the prophecies of Nostradamus, astrology, the shroud of Turin … He introduced each portentous subject with buoyant enthusiasm. Each time I had to disappoint him: “The evidence is crummy,” I kept saying. “There’s a much simpler explanation.” … And yet there’s so much in real science that’s equally exciting, more mysterious, a greater intellectual challenge—as well as being a lot closer to the truth. Did he know about the molecular building blocks of life sitting out there in the cold, tenuous gas between the stars? Had he heard of the footprints of our ancestors found in 4-million-year-old volcanic ash? What about the raising of the Himalayas when India went crashing into Asia? Or how viruses, built like hypodermic syringes, slip their DNA past the host organism’s defenses and subvert the reproductive machinery of cells; or the radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence; or the newly discovered ancient civilization of Ebla that advertised the virtues of Ebla beer? No, he hadn’t heard. Nor did he know, even vaguely, about quantum indeterminacy, and he recognized DNA only as three frequently linked capital letters.
- Comment on why does every single flashlight have multiple settings that you have to scroll through? 5 weeks ago:
I picked up some stranded skaters in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night because they flashed SOS with their headlights after I drove past them. They had been there for like 8 hours. I’m sure they would’ve rather had a flashlight to do the work for them.
But I agree that there should be another UI for getting to the emergency flashing. Like hold for 5 seconds or something unlikely to be used during normal operation.
I have a flashlight that has multiple flashy settings, but they are disabled after like 5 or 10 seconds of idle power on time. So the first click turns it on, and if you wait a while, the next click turns it off.
- Comment on Man Resigns on First Day After Indian Boss Expects Overtime Without Pay: Work-life Balance is 'Western Behaviour' - News18 1 month ago:
But when you’re paid, do you always see the job through?
- Comment on All the Disney+ films and TV shows that have been deleted from the service 1 month ago:
Your body count?
- Comment on All the Disney+ films and TV shows that have been deleted from the service 1 month ago:
The list is way smaller than I expected.
- Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? 1 month ago:
They append the word “no” to the statement.
“How are you?” Is “you’re good, no?” But the word “no” does not have a rising tone.
Tonal languages are hard for non-tonal language speakers to pick up because of this. On the flip side, it can be tough for tonal language speakers to grasp the tonal inflections in English, and sometimes speak like robots before they understand how to use them.
- Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? 1 month ago:
Vietnam’s doesn’t. The rising tone that you hear at the end of an English language question can change the literal meaning of a word in Vietnamese.
- Comment on What's his DJ name? 1 month ago:
50 Dinar
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 1 month ago:
Second vote for VTI.
- Comment on Phonebooks 1 month ago:
I hated how these were delivered to you whether you wanted them or not. So much junk.
They made really great fires though if you tore each page out and crumpled them up.
Also interesting, I took one about an inch or so thick and shot it point blank with a 12 gauge shotgun and tiny yellow circular confetti came out, which was neat to see.
- Comment on SKUNK 1 month ago:
Tail up!
Face in the grass
That’s the way I shoot
Stank funk from my ass
- Comment on What GPU is inside Mall Cop Robots? 1 month ago:
My guess is that the most expensive single component would be the lidar. Prices on lidars can be well over $100k. When I worked with lidar about 5 years ago, IIRC a Velodyne 128 was $160k.
- Comment on Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and shower 2 months ago:
Exactly this. The office doesn’t magically make people work undistracted all day for that sweet sweet 110% productivity.
- Comment on Threw a wrestling watch party, made special food, and was very disappointed in the outcome. 2 months ago:
Don’t be discouraged. This may not have worked out like you hoped and planned, but keep doing awesome things. Somebody will love you for it and you’ll have a lot of fun.
- Comment on (Religious) What would i be labeled? 2 months ago:
You’re thinking of anti-theist.
Antitheism, also spelled anti-theism, is the philosophical position that theism should be opposed.
Atheists can merely not care if there was a god because they don’t see any proof of it.
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.
Atheism can also be more anti than that, but isn’t necessarily always that way
- Comment on Where do most of the famous musicians keep their musical instruments? 2 months ago:
“In their sleevies”
- Comment on NHS to use drones to fly blood samples around London to avoid traffic in new trial 2 months ago:
This is why I really don’t want flying cars in the way ground cars operate. And sound proof buildings isn’t enough, because I like being outside.
- Comment on Rose Finch 2 months ago:
Joke’s on her, I’m colorblind.
- Comment on 666 2 months ago:
That would be so awesome!
- Comment on Every show with a suicide now has a disclaimer with a suicide hotline at the beginning. Is there any evidence that these warnings make a positive difference? 2 months ago:
Thank you for that response, I think you did a great job helping me understand you and your wife’s perspective. I had a long period of lowness, and though I was not suicidal, some of the things you described sound close to how I thought and felt.
The part about the suicide hotlines reminded me of is a talk my coworker did on mental health, and she said that if you don’t get along with your therapist within the first two sessions, it’s ok to find another therapist. I imagine that’s what these hotlines are like. When you call in you’re basically grabbing a random person from a crowd, and the chances of that person resonating strongly with your story on the first try is probably low. I could see folks just hanging up if it wasn’t helping, but it seems like they may have better luck if they call back again and talk to somebody different.
At the end of the day though, if somebody has a chronic condition, alleviating it significantly is not an easy task. It seems like these hotlines have to struggle with that tension between wanting to help, but knowing that significant long term improvement isn’t easy to achieve, especially when you’re just talking to the person who is looking for help.
I’m not going to say these resources are worthless, but they’re worthless to me and I would assume at least a few people who have similar problems. I’ve never felt compelled to reach out or search for resources like this. They’ve always felt insincere, similar to corporate PR speak or celebrity “apologies”.
I think this is how my brother mostly felt. One thing that he was into that seemed to help was stoic philosophy. I wasn’t into it when he was alive, but happened to get into it shortly after he died and it immediately resonated with me. I wished we had gotten to talk about it more when he was alive. It certainly helped me deal with the aftermath of losing him.
Thanks again for the response. Good luck finding your peace.
- Comment on Every show with a suicide now has a disclaimer with a suicide hotline at the beginning. Is there any evidence that these warnings make a positive difference? 2 months ago:
If you have read the content on afsp.org/im-having-thoughts-of-suicide/ I’d be interested to hear your take. After my brother committed suicide I found their content for suicide loss survivors to be very helpful, but as a suicide loss survivor I can’t judge the content they have for folks who are considering suicide.
- Comment on Black mold growing on the dispensers at my local McDonald's 2 months ago:
I stared at it for like 3 minutes and suddenly it flipped and all made sense, like a proper optical illusion.
The metal comes down and to the right, then bends back to the left. The shadow is the reflection off the metal. The metal is coming down and out of a hole. The white area is a completely flat surface.