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"The scientists who brought us COVID were so concerned with whether they could, they never stopped to ask if they should."
They answered when told they shouldn't...
https://youtu.be/U5MqIYCcYtg
They answered when told they shouldn't...
https://youtu.be/U5MqIYCcYtg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shu4BVjwI7k
This video discusses two behaviors of drops of liquid. One is that that drops of liquid under a vacuum do not splash. Another is that drops of liquid with a charge do not splash.
We live in a world where we've been told since children that space is the final frontier; Here we can see that drops of liquid, something we live around every single day, has attributes that have only been discovered and documented in the past 20 years. The vacuum thing was documented in 2005, and the electricity thing was documented this year. There are no final frontiers we've discovered yet. Even the mundane in our lives have undiscovered properties.
Some people want everyone to think the world has nothing left to teach us, that there's nothing left to learn, that we know everything. It's a lie. There's everything left to discover, everything left to learn, everything left to explore.
This video discusses two behaviors of drops of liquid. One is that that drops of liquid under a vacuum do not splash. Another is that drops of liquid with a charge do not splash.
We live in a world where we've been told since children that space is the final frontier; Here we can see that drops of liquid, something we live around every single day, has attributes that have only been discovered and documented in the past 20 years. The vacuum thing was documented in 2005, and the electricity thing was documented this year. There are no final frontiers we've discovered yet. Even the mundane in our lives have undiscovered properties.
Some people want everyone to think the world has nothing left to teach us, that there's nothing left to learn, that we know everything. It's a lie. There's everything left to discover, everything left to learn, everything left to explore.
The fediverse is the last bastion of a great tradition of Internet freedom.
That's a place worth fighting for.
That's a place worth fighting for.
Several Covid-era charges against former MPP Randy Hillier (@randyhillier), stemming from his participation in peaceful gatherings during the pandemic, have been quietly dismissed.
https://www.rebelnews.com/former_mpp_vindicated_as_ontario_lockdown_laws_struck_down_as_unconstitutional
https://www.standard-freeholder.com/news/randy-hilliers-charge-covid-protest-cornwall-withdrawn
"before you watch this video: what do the US presidency and bedtime with bonzo have in common?"
Got it wrong? Sorry zoomer you don't get to watch this video.
Got it wrong? Sorry zoomer you don't get to watch this video.
How cold is it out? Depending on your answer I can tell you if it's 5 1/2 or 3 1/4 inch floppy.
One thing people don't talk about is that in the 70s and 80s houses might have been less expensive, but money was way way more expensive. Would you put a house on a credit card? Because for a chunk of the 70s and 80s, your mortgage was at the same levels of interest as credit cards today. You might end up with the same house payment back then as you did today, but the bank got the bulk of the money instead of the buyer.
A common accounting trick is called the "rule of 72". You take 72, divide it by your interest rate (or your rate of return for an investment), and you have how many years it takes to pay the entire purchase price in interest, or for your investment to double. At 18% interest, you'd be paying the entire cost of the home in interest every 4 years. In the 1970s, minimum wage was about a dollar an hour, so that's a lot of money to come up with for later gains.
Let's say I buy the house and pay the bank for seven houses worth of interest, and I have this house that quadrupled in value. And? What do I do with that? If I sell the house I have to go buy another house, so it isn't like I'm rich, I've just got this asset that I can't get rid of without getting another one.
People hate on the boomers, but in reality they were already dealing with the fall of the post-war boom. Wages stagnated through their entire lives, cost of living exploded, and a few got super rich but most were just blue collar schlubs trying to make ends meet. People go "The boomers sent away all the manufacturing jobs", but they don't realize that those jobs were the ones the boomers lost directly -- it isn't that they never had them, it's that they had them and then had to deal with the mass layoffs as industry left the west.
The crazy thing I see now is people saying "Oh, they had it so easy in the 2000s" -- for those of us who lived through the 2000s we know that's a load of crap, but that's what people are saying! In 2050 will they be saying the same about 2025?
A common accounting trick is called the "rule of 72". You take 72, divide it by your interest rate (or your rate of return for an investment), and you have how many years it takes to pay the entire purchase price in interest, or for your investment to double. At 18% interest, you'd be paying the entire cost of the home in interest every 4 years. In the 1970s, minimum wage was about a dollar an hour, so that's a lot of money to come up with for later gains.
Let's say I buy the house and pay the bank for seven houses worth of interest, and I have this house that quadrupled in value. And? What do I do with that? If I sell the house I have to go buy another house, so it isn't like I'm rich, I've just got this asset that I can't get rid of without getting another one.
People hate on the boomers, but in reality they were already dealing with the fall of the post-war boom. Wages stagnated through their entire lives, cost of living exploded, and a few got super rich but most were just blue collar schlubs trying to make ends meet. People go "The boomers sent away all the manufacturing jobs", but they don't realize that those jobs were the ones the boomers lost directly -- it isn't that they never had them, it's that they had them and then had to deal with the mass layoffs as industry left the west.
The crazy thing I see now is people saying "Oh, they had it so easy in the 2000s" -- for those of us who lived through the 2000s we know that's a load of crap, but that's what people are saying! In 2050 will they be saying the same about 2025?
Cesium 137 is commonly used in radioactive measurements such as density or level. Not saying that's where this came from, but it's one place it could come from.
I would expect shrimp to be heavily radiated to meet FDA guidelines for biological safety, but I'd expect an isotope with more energetic particles to be used for that purpose, because food radiation tends to be insanely lethally powerful.
Given that, I think it's more likely that something odd happened with a measurement device than with the sanitation equipment.
I would expect shrimp to be heavily radiated to meet FDA guidelines for biological safety, but I'd expect an isotope with more energetic particles to be used for that purpose, because food radiation tends to be insanely lethally powerful.
Given that, I think it's more likely that something odd happened with a measurement device than with the sanitation equipment.
Anyone who's ever dealt with one of these little shits knows full well that they have the biggest Napoleon complex in the western world.
Typical commie, hoarding all the eyebrows for himself while some children couldn't even have one.
Both Archie and Reggie will be morons with small penises because show runners think that's funny.
Doesn't everyone love seeing already flawed characters made into gibbering idiots so people can make their favorite character evil^H^H^H^H the bestest evar?
Doesn't everyone love seeing already flawed characters made into gibbering idiots so people can make their favorite character evil^H^H^H^H the bestest evar?
Some people believe that Congress in the United States doesn't get anything done. Oh no, lots gets done. I assure you that every single person who contributed to Congress gets their kickback. It's just that none of the stuff that people actually elect congressman to do gets done. Including very basic things such as passing annual budgets which they have failed to do most years for the past quarter century.
You don't think that 32 trillion dollars in debt shows up because the Congress has failed to do absolutely anything since the federal debt was only 4 trillion, do you? No no no no no, that's how people like Elon Musk became multi-billionaires.
But rest assured Congress has a bulletproof plan how about how to deal with the consequences of the federal debt: most of them plan on dying this decade send so many of them are in their 80s and 90s.
Meanwhile, everyone can point and yell at Zaphod Breeblebrox and blame him for everything.
You don't think that 32 trillion dollars in debt shows up because the Congress has failed to do absolutely anything since the federal debt was only 4 trillion, do you? No no no no no, that's how people like Elon Musk became multi-billionaires.
But rest assured Congress has a bulletproof plan how about how to deal with the consequences of the federal debt: most of them plan on dying this decade send so many of them are in their 80s and 90s.
Meanwhile, everyone can point and yell at Zaphod Breeblebrox and blame him for everything.
In The Graysonian Ethic, I warn about the problem on the other side of the Pareto: It's true that 20% of the effort gives 80% of the outcome. But that also means that it'll take 80% of your effort to get to 100%, and if you don't put that work in, then all you've got is another incomplete miracle, one of many.
I saw a video a year or two ago that actually changed my view of the problem entirely.
The thing that's actually difficult about building a house isn't making walls. People built houses out of wood in the forest with nothing but the clothing on their backs and some hand tools, and some of those houses have lasted for centuries. Compare that to a million dollar machine, and a bunch of material that was industrially mined and processed in another million dollar machine.
Meanwhile, the real issue being the engineering, permitting, basement, stuff like insulation, electric, hvac, plumbing, windows, and so on. At the end of the day, creating the walls really isn't a big deal.
Given that, a 3d printed shell doesn't actually fix anything -- and in fact, when people want to live in a storage container, they quickly realize that just because they have four walls and a roof doesn't mean they have a place to live by any stretch of the imagination.
But, I think an angle relating to where you're coming from makes sense -- these are cool technologies with a lot of potential applications, as long as we stop pretending the reason to make cool new building technologies is to magically build cheap houses.
The thing that's actually difficult about building a house isn't making walls. People built houses out of wood in the forest with nothing but the clothing on their backs and some hand tools, and some of those houses have lasted for centuries. Compare that to a million dollar machine, and a bunch of material that was industrially mined and processed in another million dollar machine.
Meanwhile, the real issue being the engineering, permitting, basement, stuff like insulation, electric, hvac, plumbing, windows, and so on. At the end of the day, creating the walls really isn't a big deal.
Given that, a 3d printed shell doesn't actually fix anything -- and in fact, when people want to live in a storage container, they quickly realize that just because they have four walls and a roof doesn't mean they have a place to live by any stretch of the imagination.
But, I think an angle relating to where you're coming from makes sense -- these are cool technologies with a lot of potential applications, as long as we stop pretending the reason to make cool new building technologies is to magically build cheap houses.
Some Japanese guy threw a forest spirit's head at me after I tried this. It was really gross.
I hated Wolf's Rain. It was depressing in a way that didn't feel enjoyable to watch.
A close second would be thousands of 12 episode shows from the 2000s that started off paced like there was going to be all this intrigue and shit, but then it's like "oh shit it's episode 11 ok then the bad guy showed up shit it's episode 12 everyone lived happily ever after the end!"
Apparently some people thought wolfs rain was the best thing ever, but I just don't like permenant death and sadness until deus ex machina.
Unlike today, you really had to take a lot of time downloading a big series like that so whereas a shitty series today you can drop, a long show like that back then you were in for a penny, in for a pound.
A close second would be thousands of 12 episode shows from the 2000s that started off paced like there was going to be all this intrigue and shit, but then it's like "oh shit it's episode 11 ok then the bad guy showed up shit it's episode 12 everyone lived happily ever after the end!"
Apparently some people thought wolfs rain was the best thing ever, but I just don't like permenant death and sadness until deus ex machina.
Unlike today, you really had to take a lot of time downloading a big series like that so whereas a shitty series today you can drop, a long show like that back then you were in for a penny, in for a pound.