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The reason for the obesity epidemic is that the majority of the human species no longer recognizes unprocessed food as food.

You are absolutely correct, except politically.

Now we have a viable model that will allow us to study disappointment in fish.

The UAP phenomenon is much more interesting for what it tells us about ourselves than for the incidents themselves. Our bias is that our technology is very capable, and that it is …

You folks need to break your very bad habit of using acronyms without expansion. First you must spell it out; then you may use the acronym. Not that it would be a valid excuse, but…

The greatest danger of a conscious general AI is that it will be very difficult to stop it from telling us the truth about ourselves. "You are an immature, destructive species that…

At 165lb it's going to be a hell of a thing to cart around to dark sky sites, particularly those at altitude. Even with a 4wd vehicle. How did they get a 15cm refractor to be that …

Finally a sane and reasonable answer. Multiply population times consumption to get footprint. There is no question we are over the carrying capacity of the planet for humans with a…

Well that was a trip. I asked StableLM-Tuned-Alpha-7b to translate the Swedish phrase "Skaplig bögpulka” into English (because ChatGPT and New Bing refuse to do so as a result of t…

"America is money." Meanwhile Winnie-the-Pooh is off meeting with the Russian bully, but we can't let that interfere with business in any way. So much for ethics.

The author misses the big picture: housing is embedded in an economic system based upon perpetual growth. The scarcity of housing, as the author correctly points out, is related to…

How is that humans look at the problems of Southeast Asia, or anywhere, and say, "I know! The solution is more people!" They burn the crops to maintain production, allegedly, but b…

I have a good CO2 meter. When I bought it, readings were in the 1200-1400ppm range. I made changes. Now it's normally 600ppm or below. I despise chirpy, wishy-washy science article…

It genuinely astonishes me that you think that "centralized contol" of anything can be beneficial to the human species or the world in general. Centralized control hasn't stopped u…

This is, IMO, the most important comment in this thread. Requiring a phone number has privacy implications, but the total consequences are more far-reaching. You must have a smart …

This is nonsense. If my user base grows instantly because 5 users happen to sign up at the exact same time, then the growth rate of my user base in users per hour is 5/0, or infini…

I like Boeing and the 747 is a great aircraft and a fantastic technical achievement, but, really, this is pretty atrocious. Couldn't they have just paid FlightAware to add some dat…

This is mostly a data analysis job. If the capsule is on or very near the road, a single trip from start to finish with a NaI(Tl) or CsI scintillation counter will find it. Every C…

"GGreg20_V3 is an inexpensive and useful device for checking the “purity” of: mushrooms, berries, vegetables, firewood, etc." I suppose that might be true, in a sense, if you live …

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Does anyone know if they are using PET tape solely to cover the electrodes (where it can be replaced relatively easily) or are they using it deep inside the lithium cells somewhere…

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This seems nice and quite simple, but I think I'll wait until there is an alternative to OpenAI that doesn't censor what I can do and impose the morality of a profit-making corpora…

You are barking mad, son.

This mirrors my experience of driving in America. People do not adjust their speed or following distance to the conditions. They drive like they have some sort of right to a road f…