I had an engineering professor who grew up during the Iranian Civil War. He was interesting, and while the anecdotes were rare, they were crazy

Sony is a close second, BTW 😁

Crunchyroll had a major security breach earlier this week

Atmospheric scattering would make that effectively impossible, even if you could rotate the mirrors quickly enough. The light rays would be too unfocussed to properly heat up anything in orbit

Or just don’t post them to begin with

Published on April 1st

Nobody is dying horribly from emphysema because they accidentally contacted microplastics two decades ago.

Aren’t the vast majority of people suffering cancer from asbestos exposure the people that worked with asbestos for years? From what I understand, you’re very unlikely to suffer from a single exposure.

That being said, asbestos is fucking everywhere. Veritasium recently did a video on it, and a lot of the soil around Las Vegas just naturally contains it, and gets kicked up by vehicles, construction, wind, etc.

If you’re referring to the study blaming colon cancer on processed meats, it’s a major reach.

It was an epidemiological study, which are notorious for poor controlling of variables. If the effect has a relative risk increase greater than 100% (i.e. doubles risk or more), then you can use the results of an epidemiologal study, but results less than that should be treated with a lot of skepticism. This particular study was only 18%, well within the error bounds of this type of study.

For contrast, the epidemiological studies used to establish a causal link between smoking and lung cancer had a risk increase in the ballpark of 10,000%

They were also pretty novel in their controversies.

They were the main ones throwing a hissy fit when GeForceNow wanted to automatically let you stream to any game you already purcgased on Steam. The game’s devs wanted GeForce to require everyone to purchase an additional copy just to stream it through their service.

The game devs also started selling DLC while the game was unfinished, which is also shitty. And we’re not talking skins either.

but nuclear armament is a far cry from Earth shattering!

You forgot about Project Sundial

My point is that the “small difference in temperatures” where it’s worthwhile to run a heat pump is still wide enough to run an air-exchange heat pump cost effectively damn near anywhere on Earth outside of the poles. You’re arguing the finges when almost nobody would be affected by it.

And if you’re using a geothermal heat pump, your thermal sink continuously sits around 50°F (while homes tend to be kept at 65-75°F), which means it should always be efficient.

Quit this conservative-esque route of arguing. It’s bullshit and you know it.

The sunlight spent just to get the water up to temperature is also wasted, so the maximum extractable energy per day gets kneecapped

Or just blow up the scale so every piece is 45lb. Work out both the mind and body

Plus, you get a lot of lag when heating water with concentrated solar. Overnight your water cools down, so you need time to get it back to boiling temperature before it can generate any power. That lag gets worse during winter and cloudy days

You need a giant asterisk there. That “small temperature difference” is -40° to 120°F

They never gave Omarchy money directly from what I’m aware, just gave them shoutouts. Still not okay though

Yeah, I’ve seen screenshots and their comments were pretty disgusting

Same in the US unfortunately. The few public lands that you’re allowed to hunt in are overhunted

Inversely, there’s “I’m bi, but…” To point out shit that can just be platonic that people keep trying to romanticize.

Like, why can’t I complement a friend on their good fashion sense without people assuming there’s some attraction there? It’s bullshit

Why bot both?

No, it’s a conscientious objector