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> It is increasingly common practice around the world to regulate the storage water temperature to above 60 °C (140 °F), and to circulate or distribute water at a temperature less …

Buying stock in a biotech company with a pre-release drug and betting that the same drug trial will succeed are functionally equivalent, the converse is also true; shorting the sto…

Gateway was located in Sioux City, IA before they moved to South Dakota in 1990: https://medium.com/@madmedic11671/behind-the-spots-the-story... Sioux City is near a tripoint where…

> The recent cluster of weird deaths and disappearances of scientists linked to secret military research has a similar pattern to it The pattern being that the deaths and disappear…

> Do Alfalfa growers traditionally use limited (and funded at large expense by the local community) municipal water hookups to grow their crops? Are alfalfa growers asking for new …

As a comparison, one acre of alfalfa growing year round in California uses about 5*325000=1,625,000 gallons of water a year for four harvests, 4400 gallons of water per day per acr…

All US data center water usage is less than the total water used for golf courses or the total water used to grow alfalfa. Less water used in evaporative cooling means more electri…

> The Apple Watch is definitely fashion accessory first and fitness device second. Are Apple Watches really fashion accessories? I think a $30 Casio F91W looks better than an Apple…

If a company with a drug in clinical trials is publicly traded, going long or short on shares of that company is functionally equivalent to a binary bet on the outcome. Stock in a …

> I get the addictiveness of TikTok and Reels but I don't know what the solution is to the supposed insidiousness. They just figured out what you like to watch and showed you more …

Oracle is primarily a legal department that sells software licenses to give their lawyers something to extract money from customers with. Google “Oracle org chart meme” and look at…

There are examples of people manipulating precipitation monitors to get crop insurance payouts: https://www.agweb.com/news/business/rain-robbers-how-four-fa... The incentive was al…

Biotech stocks for premarket drugs are functionally binary bets on the drug trial itself and have existed for a long time. Wildfire prediction markets would be incredibly reckless …

It’s not, anyone claiming otherwise is arguing from an emotional position, not a rational one.

Binary bets on drug approvals for publicly traded biotech companies are no different than going long or short the equity of the biotech company. The incentive to interfere in drug …

This specific policy is because one thin-skinned narcissist lost a legal case in Scotland over wind turbine aesthetics. His personality disorder makes him hold grudges forever and …

Humans have sex and kill each other and always have. It’s intrinsic to human nature.

> I think a lot of us probably would agree that pornographic content is generally bad for society. I don’t believe that at all, in fact, I believe the opposite. I think a religious…

Generally, property in places where the landscape is well-maintained is worth substantially more than property where half the lawns are uncut and the fence lines are overgrown with…

Most city code about turfgrass lawns mandates cutting them if you have one. If you don’t want to maintain a lawn by keeping it trimmed, rip it out. It’s a non-native monoculture, a…

There are municipalities in the US with lawn ordinances, mine has one. > Tall Grass and Weeds > Weeds or grass more than eight inches high or that have gone to seed must be cut or …

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