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- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 6 days ago:
Would he? I’m terrified of his ability to double down on obvious bullshit even when presented with facts directly countering his claims.
As bad as Trump is, I’m almost more concerned about the people who saw his first clown show and thought either “I have got to get in on this” or " I can use this to accomplish my goals. "
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 6 days ago:
Do you want president Vance? This is how you get president Vance.
- Comment on LG's new stretchable display can grow by 50%, bendy panels can be deformed into new form factors 1 week ago:
Is this what you’re referring to?
instructables.com/Face-Changing-Projection-Mask-B…
That’s pretty neat and I didn’t know that existed. The whole external projector requirement is rather limiting though. A cloth like screen could be a nice improvement to the concept.
- Comment on LG's new stretchable display can grow by 50%, bendy panels can be deformed into new form factors 1 week ago:
Make a mask with this that continually changes the appearance of the wearers face to confuse ai surveillance tracking.
- Comment on Baby Showers!! :) 2 weeks ago:
Were they drinking soda in a lab room filled with fissile material?
- Comment on PS5 Pro just got even more expensive as Sony admits these accessories won't work. 3 weeks ago:
There’s no risk for a factory condition unit. This rumor started after people with units that had been dissasembled and reassembled had issues with vertical orientation. It turned out that it’s very easy to mess up the seals that keep the liquid metal thermal interface in place. So units that had been previously taken apart had liquid metal slowly leak, causing overheating and/or shorting.
If you haven’t taken the cooler off the mainboard, using the vertical stand is just fine. I haven’t seen any evidence of factory assembled units suffering leaking.
- Comment on Eat lead 4 weeks ago:
Yes, and lead is produced in much greater abundance than uranium.
The part that’s missing in the post is in looking specifically at uranium deposits and making assumptions about the initial composition of the deposits, since the crystalline structure excludes lead when the crystals form. So if you detect lead contained within zircon, it is assumed to be the product of radioactive decay.
- Comment on Why hasn't Kamala Harris's record of keeping nonviolent offenders in prison, despite SCOTUS ruling, while California AG been brought up much this election? 4 weeks ago:
Is there a directory of comunities compiled somewhere? I’m not sure how I would go about figuring out the best place to post something if I wasn’t already familiar with a relevant community.
- Comment on that's a huge sprout 4 weeks ago:
Similar to your third option, cut kielbasa into ⅓" slices. Brown in generous amounts of butter. Remove from pan and brown a similar volume lf sweet onions. Add in sliced cabbage about half way through and adjust your heat to keep everything browning. Get the egg noodles going. When the cabbage has cooked down enough to be tender add the kielbasa back in and turn down the heat. Season with salt and peper, and a couple splashes lf balsamic vinegar. Be conservative with the balsamic, but it will really make the seared kielbasa pop if you get it right. Then serve with the wide egg noodles when they finish cooking. The wide egg noodles should look more like a wide fettucini, not the short curly noodles that many stores carry.
- Comment on Does drinking coffee reduce the amount of nutrients absorbed from prior meals? 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t that just a crappier version of bulimia?
- Comment on Nvidia's Jensen Huang will be CES 2025's keynote speaker as RTX 50 rumors abound 1 month ago:
NVidia is an AI hardware/ software company now. Anyone expecting good news about gaming cards is set up for disappointment.
- Comment on Optimal PSU fan placement 1 month ago:
Are you 3D printing a new top plate for the psu? Remember that the steel housing also functions to contain the emi generated from the psu components. You could end up increasing electrical noise for other components if your new top plate isn’t conductive and grounded.
- Comment on Are captchas enough to stop bots? 1 month ago:
The whole point of captchas is to train bots. Did you think they were all road object and optical character recognition based because those are the categories humans really excel at?
- Comment on Weird PC PSU Capacity 1 month ago:
I don’t know the answer, but I found this discussion which seems relevant.
…stackexchange.com/…/atx-power-supply-front-end-h…
The explanation given says it has to do with the functionality allowing the psu to be used for either 110VAC or 220VAC.
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 1 month ago:
That area has never had that level of flooding since it was settled. Sure, everyone knows floods are dangerous, but not even the meteorologists were expecting the extent of flooding they actually got.
Have some humility and realize that you have access to knowledge now that would have sounded crazy before the events.
- Comment on Dreams come true 1 month ago:
The trouble is that a fad doesn’t have to be functional to be used by short-sighted trend chasers as a justification to make cuts. How many jobs did we see outsourced to India in a way that didn’t even come close to matching the quality of the people laid off? The people who make the decision to replace jobs with ai systems will loudly declare success and move on to their next role before the long-term consequences are fully realized.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
A smart tv without an internet connection is usually close enough to a dumb TV. It’s not like your TV needs regular security updates so leaving it off your home network is fine.
- Comment on Ol switcharoo 1 month ago:
As long as the earth-sun orbit stays close to 1 au, then ejecting the moon wouldn’t necessarily be world ending. There would probably be some aquatic life extinctions from the loss of tides, and some nocturnal species might be affected by the change in light levels.
The sun diameter is 1.4 million kilometers, and the earth-moon irital radius is 0.38 million kilometers. So trying stick the sun between the earth and moon at the current orbital radius just makes the sun 1% more massive.
- Comment on What a bioluminescent petunia had to teach me 2 months ago:
Bioluminescent ferns bordering a wooded path would be rather magical.
- Comment on Launches 2 months ago:
Yes, one is a final solution, the other is just pushing your problems elsewhere without regard for who else it could affect.
- Comment on Why is waking up when my alarm goes off so difficult and unpleasant yet "sleeping in" does feel good and isn't satisfying? 2 months ago:
Smart blinds can also serve a similar function. My bedroom catches some light from passing headlights and there’s enough light pollution to affect my sleep. However, my SO really struggles to wake up if it’s dark. Smart blinds have been a great solution for us.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
That depends on your client. Connect for lemmy shows a placeholder for comments from blocked instances. You can click to show the comment anyway or just blissfully ignore the high probability rage bait.
- Comment on Why are collard greens called greens is it the color? And if so how come there is not a rainbow of different colored collards? 2 months ago:
In a similar vein, I prefer celery leaves over the stalks. They have a better flavor imo and they don’t feel like your chewing on stringy water.
- Comment on Wells Fargo employee found dead in cubicle 4 days after she clocked in: ‘She was just lying on her desk’ 2 months ago:
I’m a little surprised that I’ve never seen bluetooth pressure switches in office chairs to lock workstations when the employee stands up.
- Comment on 😳😳😳 2 months ago:
There’s no danger for an mri unless you’ve had major surgery involving metal inplants. There’s no ionizing radiation so there should be no risks for the fetus.
Cost and scarcity are big limiting factors for mri though. Mri machines are massive permanent installations that cost in the millions. They are already busy with people who need diagnostics of specific conditions. Putting every expectant mother in one would lead to absurd wait times. Whereas doctors offices can have multiple little ultrasound machines on carts that are easy to quickly acquire imagining as part of roitine visits.
- Comment on US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024 2 months ago:
There is also the issue that if building nuclear plants takes too long and is too expensive to be the solution, then such a project would also be too late to matter. Also transmission losses likely mean this is a solution for much less of the world population than you think. If we had a truly global lossless grid, then we would need much less energy storage to begin with.
Impracticalities aside, absurd geoengineering what-ifs are entertaining. Thanks for sharing.
- Comment on US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024 2 months ago:
Pumped hydro is both very geologically limited and environmentally detrimental. That technology alone will not substantially reduce the need for other power storage technologies/ peaker plants.
- Comment on North Carolina is getting a $1.4B sodium-ion battery gigafactory 3 months ago:
- Comment on Could an animal be taught how to throw accurately? 3 months ago:
I swear some squirrels that didn’t appreciate our hammock location could hit my head with pine cones 7 times out of 10.
- Comment on Is the dream of nuclear fusion dead? 3 months ago:
DEMO is not a singular reactor, but rather a class of reactors that are expected to be built using the technologies and lessons learned from ITER. So basically ITER’s main goal is to be a massive international R&D project to pave the the way for individual countries to be able to build their own DEMO plants afterwards. Pathfinding manufacturing technologies for this unique of a system is a big part of why ITER is so expensive. Replicating an ITER like machine should be considerably cheaper.